I was born in 1943 and remember a children’s book about a pond. The pond was home to many animals – rabbits, frogs, fish, badgers, etc. But it also was one to a wicked beaver who wanted to destroy the pond. All the animals had to get together to defeat the beaver and save their pond. Of course they were successful. I remember something about the bees swarming and biting the beaver mercilessly as part of their battle plan. And it worked.
I was hoping you could give me some information on a short story I read probably 46 years ago.
The story is about a young Hessian soldier who is captured during the American Revolution after the battle of Bennington in 1777. His captors, Vermont militiamen, have orders to kill any prisoners, but they wind up sparing him and one brings him back to his farm.
I think they story is titled either “Hans of Luck” or “Lucky Hans.” “Hans” may also be spelled “Hons.” I read this story in the 1970s.
I’m searching for a children’s chapter book that I read and loved when I was about 10 or 11 in the early 1970s. All I remember about it is that it was about a boy who lived in an apartment building near Central Park, and in the afternoons he and an older man (perhaps his grandfather?) would sail his toy boat in Central Park. (I’m not thinking of Stuart Little!) I think the apartment doorman might have been a character as well. My guess is that the book was written sometime in the mid-1960s.
I do not know the title or author of this book. The cut-out “book” came out sometime around 1940-1945, I believe. It was about 8 1/2″ by 11″, possibly bigger, and perhaps 3/8″ thick. The book contained cut-out WWII era airplanes in full color, perhaps two pagers per plane. When assembled they had a 3D presentation e.g. the fuselages were cylindrical and the wings’ surfaces were curved. They were not intended to be “flown” like a glider. They were surprisingly realistic when assembled.
A large size paperback, 1970s comprehensive instruction manual for growing a kitchen garden and orchard by the small-space, French-intensive method. It had realistic line drawing illustrations (looking as if the source of the drawings was photographs. ) Also appeared to be UK English in origin as illustrations showed brick walls around the garden as if it were on an estate. Instructions for annual and perennial vegetables, as well as fruit shrubs and trees were included. Specialty techniques such as espalier were shown.
I’m seeking the identification of an illustrated science fiction anthology I saw once in the children’s section of a library. This was back in the early 80s so the book was from that time period. I remember the ending of one story where some astronauts were walking along and a robot that was with them telling them to stop because there was danger up ahead. They laughed at the robot and told it there was nothing ahead of them. They kept walked and ended up stepping into quicksand. They begged the robot to help them, but the robot told them it wasn’t allowed to put itself into danger, so the astronauts ended up drowning.
I remember two illustrations from the book: one for the story mentioned, it was a drawing of the astronauts disappearing into the quicksand. The second illustration was of a dinosaur being scooped up by a payloader. I’ve wondered about this book for years. My Google skills have been fruitless, so if somebody here could figure this out for me I’d be ecstatic.
A young boy gets the opportunity to go the store for his birthday to pick out a bicycle for his birthday, normally items are shipped directly to the house. It is set in the future. I originally read the book in the mid-1970s.
A girl stains a carpet and moves all the furniture into a big pile in the middle of the room to hide the stain. I vaguely remember her name being Harriet but I could be wrong about that. A 70s book for young kids, illustrated.
Beautiful cover with picture of an opening through a forest. The colours were browns and golds and green. It was a story about a boy and girl traveling into an enchanted place and the things they experienced there, an adventure. I read this book over 50 years ago.
This is a child’s book circa 1950s about a bird who is trying to bring twigs into his/her birdhouse to build a nest. The twigs don’t fit in the small birdhouse door because the length of the twigs is too long to fit in the oval entrance. The bird finally realizes that the twigs can be brought in by turning them to go straight in. The bird then screams Wowee Kee Flowee! Of course, I might not have the entire story correct since it has been over 60 years since I read it, but I will always remember Wowee Kee Flowee!